South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. v. Public Service Commission

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission granted a certificate of convenience and necessity to General Telephone Company “to construct, operate and maintain a modern automatic dial telephone system in the exchange area formerly served by the Farmers Telephone Company of Upton, *258Kentucky, in Hardin County, Kentucky, and portions of adjoining counties.” The certificate had been sought also by South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation. The applications of the two companies were heard jointly and the same order which granted the certificate to General denied the…